Hi there! On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:24:33 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 12, Reinhard Tartler <siretart@debian.org> wrote: > >> On the other hand, Debian has chosen against that and relies on klibc, >> ipconfig, etc. for early userspace and thus, the initramfs. I suspect >> the main motivations behind these decisions were portability and size >> (please correct me and add references). > The Debian initramfs of my sid system is 10 MB, while the one from my > RHEL 6.1 servers is 12 MB. So there is no big difference here. I checked my systems and found out something strange about initrd sizes, all with MODULES=most in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf: |--------------+------------------+-------------| | distribution | kernel | initrd size | |--------------+------------------+-------------| | lenny | 2.6.26-2-orion5x | 3287928 | | | 2.6.26-2-amd64 | 7766596 | | | 2.6.26-2-amd64 | 7787529 | | | 2.6.26-1-686 | 7626120 | | | 2.6.26-2-686 | 7629923 | | | 2.6.26-2-686 | 7635738 | | squeeze | 2.6.32-5-amd64 | 9245071 | | | 2.6.32-5-amd64 | 9256338 | | | 2.6.32-5-amd64 | 9260727 | | | 2.6.32-5-amd64 | 9919173 | | | 2.6.32-5-amd64 | 10506190 | | | 2.6.32-5-686 | 10509240 | | | 2.6.39-2-amd64 | 10680155 | | | 3.0.0-1-amd64 | 10858550 | | sid | 3.0.0-2-amd64 | 4057637 | | | 3.1.0-rc4-amd64 | 4120746 | | | 3.1.0-rc7-amd64 | 4121794 | |--------------+------------------+-------------| On my sid, using MODULES=dep I get 4062599 for 3.1.0-rc7-amd64, which is practically no different from MODULES=most. Considering that my sid is full-disk encrypted, there is something odd, here. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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